These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Pacaguaras, Pacay, Pachacama.
an Indian tribe livin the N. ing parts of Bolivia and Brazil. They have numerous small villages and follow hunting and fishing for a livelihood. Some of them formerly embraced the Christian religion. There is but a remnant of the tribe remaining.
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a Peruvian tree (Prosopis dulcis), natural order Leguminosæ, suborder Mimosa . The pure white, flaky matter in which the seeds are embedded is used as food, and the pods, which are nearly two feet long, serve for feeding cattle. The mesquite belongs to the same genus.
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a town and temple of ancient Peru, on the coast, about 20 miles S. of Lima. In this temple worship was paid to Pachacama, the ama, the Supreme Deity , or "founder of the world." The ruins of the building, are of an older type of architecture than that of the Incas. The shrine and wooden image of the god were destroyed by Pizarro in 1523. 73 P
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in botany, a genus of Bombaceæ, akin to Adansonia. P. (Carolinea) alba is a South American tree, the inner bark of which furnishes excellent cordage. P. macrantha is a large tree, 100 feet high, with greenish flowers and blood-red filaments. PACHMANN Russian pianist; born in Odessa, Russia, , VLADIMIR DE, July a 27, 1848. He studied under his father, who was a violinist of some talent, and was also a pupil of Dachs at Vienna. His first appearance was in 1869, and in 1871 he began his tours. He visited Paris, Vienna and London (1882-1883) and was received with enthusiasm. He came to the United States and toured the country in 1899-1900. He became famous here and in especially for his interpretations of Chopin. Europe
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a coeducational institution in Forest Grove, Ore.; founded in 1853 under the auspices of the Congregational Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 12; students, 150; Dean, R. F. Clark, A.M.
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a coeducational institution in San José, Cal., founded in 1852 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; redents ported; President in 1919:, 34 J. instructors L. Seaton,; Ph 465. D. stu-
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or PACINIAN CORPUSCLES, certain corpuscles appended to the nerves; first noticed by Pacini in 1830 and 1835, and described by him in 1840. In the human subject they are found in great numbers in connection with the nerves of the hand and foot, the nerves, as it may be presumed, of touch; but they also exist sparingly on other spinal nerves, and on the plexuses of the sympathetic, though never on the nerves of motion.
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ALPHEUS SPRING American naturalist; born in wick, Me., Feb. 19, 1839; graduated Bowdoin 1861; for a time assistant Agassiz at Cambridge. State ogist of Massachusetts in 1871-1873 In 1878 Professor of Zoology and ogy at Brown University. He is best foreign trade. The The known as an entomologist; his tion of insects, 1863, has been accepted. As an evolutionist, Packard was one of the leaders of Neo - Lamarckian school. His include " Structure of the Ovipositor Insects " ( 1868); " Development and atomy of Limulus Polyphemus ( 1885); " The Cave Fauna of ( 1888); " The America" Coast" (1891); "Text-book of Entomology" (1898); "Lamark" (1891); monographs on geometrid moths, a locust's brain, phyllopod crustacea, etc. He died in 1905.
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FRANK LUCIUS, an American writer, born in Canada, in 1877. He graduated from graduate McGill University courses in in 1897 Europe, and. took For eral years he was engaged in magazines ing and in. 1906 He began contributing was author of "On the Iron at Big Cloud, " ( 1911); Miracle Man," (1914); Traitor, " ( 1916); " The Sin That His stories, " ( 1917 to magazines). He also. contributed COLLEGIATE PACKER TUTE. A girls' school in Brooklyn, N. Y., built in 1853 to succeed the Brooklyn Female Academy, the buildings of which were destroyed by fire in the year. Mrs. Harriet L. Packer endowed the new institution with $65,000. The courses now given provide primary, secondary, high school, and collegiate instruction. The enrollment in all departments in the year 1914-1915 was 641. The total value of the buildings and equipment of the institute is approximately $600,000. The library is an unusually large one for schools of this type, having 11,000 volumes.
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anciently the name of a small brook of Lydia, in Asia Minor, which rises on the N. slope of Mount N. Tmolus (modern Buz Dagh) flows past Sardis (Sart), and empties itself into the Hermus (Kodus). It is never more than 10 feet broad and 1 foot deep. The sands or mud of Pactolus were long famous in antiquity for the gold dust which they conbrook is now called Sara-
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A town in the Thracian Chersonesus, on the Propontis, to which Alcibiades retired when he was banished by the Athenians, B. C. 407. Pacuvius, M. The greatest of the Roman tragic poets, was born about B. C. 220, at Brundusium, and was the son of the sister of Ennius . His tragedies were taken from the great Greek writers; but he did not confine himself, like his predecessors, to mere translation, but worked up his materials with more freedom and independent judgment. Padus (Po). The chief river of Italy. 2026 Editor's Note: Pactya later merged with Cardia to form the city of Lysimachia, according to Pliny the Elder. Its site is located 2 miles south of modern Bolayır, Turkey. (Ed: BR 2026-06-05)
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the Polyodon spatula, a large fish allied to the sturgeons, so named from the elongated broad snout with which it stirs up the soft muddy bottom in search of food. It often reaches a length of from 5 to 6 feet. The paddle fishes are exclusively North American in their distribution, being found in the Mississippi, Ohio, and other great rivers of that continent.
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FREDERICK MOR- GAN, an American educator, born at Haverhill, Mass., Mass., in 1875. Graduated from Colby College in 1896 and took post-graduate courses at Yale and in Europe. From 1899 he was professor of English at the University of Idaho and in the year 1901 he became sor of English at the University Washington. He wrote and translated become many works relating to English other literature. He was a to the Cambridge History of Literature and to European and magazines.
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